2026 municipal election
Nanaimo, Oceanside turnout strong in pair of advance voting days
NANAIMO - While timing was a major factor, it appears poll workers were busy during advance voting opportunities for this year's municipal election. A pair of opportunities on back-to-back Wednesdays, Oct. 7 and Oct. 14, saw thousands cast their ballot for new Mayor, Council, Regional District and School Board candidat...
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Clippers pursue college dreams at BCHL Showcase
NANAIMO - The Clippers are on their longest road trip in team history with four games in five days in Alberta. It's an eight-day trip overall with two of the games at the BCHL Showcase in Nisku, outside of Edmonton, with the event featuring all 20 teams playing two games each. While the results count in the regular sea...
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Bear spray used during altercation at Nanaimo high school
NANAIMO - Local Mounties arrested a 15-year-old youth after they allegedly used bear spray against a fellow student at Wellington Secondary School. The incident unfolded just after noon on Wednesday, Oct. 14, and involved what police are saying was a dispute between the alleged attacker and a similarly-aged victim. Res...
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2026 municipal election
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'Too many issues:' Lantzville Fire Rescue cancels annual Halloween fireworks display
LANTZVILLE - A long-standing mid-Island tradition of an official Halloween fireworks won't be happening for the foreseeable future. The Lantzville Volunteer Firefighters Association announced on social media on Monday, Oct. 12, their annual fireworks display on Oct. 31 won't be taking place this year, officially puttin...
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Aiden Tye
Nanaimo's most prolific offender sentenced for feces-smearing tirade
NANAIMO - When Aiden David Tye implodes, society repeatedly pays the price. The 41-year-old Tye was back in a familiar place last week at Nanaimo Law Courts, before a judge for an alarming meltdown on Jan 14, 2026, at Javawocky Coffee House on Nanaimo's waterfront. After being banned from the property, Tye threw severa...
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Showcase Woes
Clippers lose rematch of 2026 BCHL Finals to Brooks
NISKU, AB - A rematch of the 2026 BCHL Finals pitted the Nanaimo Clippers against the Brooks Bandits at the BCHL Showcase.Brooks won the Finals series in five games, while also besting the rematch by a score of 4-1 on Wednesday, Oct. 14 at Silent Ice Centre in Nisku, AB.The Bandits jumped out in front 2-0 in the first ...
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Be prepared
Annual drill shines light on emergency preparedness
NANAIMO - Drop, cover, and hold!Many workplaces, schools, and organized group settings are taking part in the annual Great BC Shakeout drill, featuring alerts sent out to many television and radio stations on Thursday, Oct. 15 at 10:15 a.m.In addition, local governments, including the City of Nanaimo, are sending direc...
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provincial election
Economy and jobs the focus at Nanaimo provincial candidate forum
NANAIMO - Candidates looking to represent the local area in the Legislature in Victoria were under the microscope Tuesday evening.Six of the seven candidates running in Nanaimo-Gabriola Island and Nanaimo-Lantzville attended an all-candidates forum at the Nanaimo Golf Club on Tuesday, Oct. 13, an event put on by the Na...
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Final advance voting opportunity opens ahead of 2026 Municipal Election
NANAIMO - For the second, and final, time ahead of election day, polls are open for the 2026 Municipal Election. Advance voting opens again on Wednesday, Oct. 14 from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. at a variety of locations across the mid-Island, depending on which municipality or jurisdiction you're casting a ballot in. City of Nan...
Oct 14, 2026
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British Columbia
Police investigating after body found in Surrey, B.C., in suspected homicide
SURREY - Homicide investigators say they have yet to positively identify a man who was found dead under suspicious circumstances in Surrey, B.C. The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team says in a statement that police were called to the 6100-block of...
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B.C. election at a glance: Parties make pledges on bridge, buses and bargaining
Here are some of the developments on British Columbia's election campaign on Thursday, Oct. 15. CONSERVATIVES VOW TO SCRAP TUNNEL, BUILD BRIDGE The B.C. Conservatives have announced a plan to scrap the Massey Tunnel replacement project and instead buil...
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B.C. Conservatives dump candidate accused of making Hitler remarks
VICTORIA - The British Columbia Conservatives have dumped a candidate in the provincial election after he was accused of posting "offensive" online remarks about Hitler and the Holocaust. The party said Thursday that Vancouver-Strathcona candidate Jord...
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Vancouver officer denies giving 'lopsided' account of fatal fight with Myles Gray
VANCOUVER - A Vancouver police officer involved in the deadly arrest of Myles Gray in 2015 says he doesn't agree that he has given a "lopsided" account of the altercation by describing Gray as "the Hulk" or a "charging bull." Const. Eric Birzneck is o...
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TSB: 'Incomplete' risk assessment led to 2022 B.C. plane crash that killed three
RICHMOND - Investigators say "limited knowledge" of local wind conditions and a possibly incomplete risk assessment likely led to a pilot losing control of his plane in a crash in British Columbia that killed all three people. The Transportation Safety...
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More than a third of young nurses in Canada do not renew licences, says think tank
MONTREAL - A new report says more than a third of the registered nurses in Canada under the age of 35 in 2023 did not renew their licences the next year. The Montreal Economic Institute compiled the numbers in the report using the latest data available...
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Local Sports
Long Awaited Debut
Women's hockey program set to take flight at VIU
NANAIMO - After almost two years of preparation the VIU Mariners wonen's hockey team is ready to hit the ice. The Mariners have an exhibition game on Saturday, Oct. 17 against the Island Surge and they'll have a home game a week later against an opponent to be detemined. Team president, general manager and coach Kris K...
Oct 11, 2026
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Leveling Up
Three Nanaimo Timbermen standouts chosen in NLL entry draft
NANAIMO - Draft day in the National Lacrosse League was special for the Senior A Nanaimo Timbermen. Three players who just finished their first seasons in the WLA were drafted in the top 33 selections. Right-hander Jeremy Wudrick went 27th overall to the Vancouver Warriors, while defender Joel Mullen was also picked by...
Oct 3, 2026
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Championship Mentality
John Barsby's varsity football team brings a winning attitude to a new season
NANAIMO - The high school varsity football season has begun in the mid island with the John Barsby Bulldogs winning their season opener 55-34 against Abbotford. Barsby is in a AA/AAA hybrid division with Ballenas out of Parksville and Mt. Douglas and Spectrum schools from Victoria. Initially Nanaimo District Secondary ...
Sep 26, 2026
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Clippers pursue college dreams at BCHL Showcase
NANAIMO - The Clippers are on their longest road trip in team history with four games in five days in Alberta. It's an eight-day trip overall with two of the games at the BCHL Showcase in Nisku, outside of Edmonton, with the event featuring all 20 teams playing two games each. While the results count in the regular sea...
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Showcase Woes
Clippers lose rematch of 2026 BCHL Finals to Brooks
NISKU, AB - A rematch of the 2026 BCHL Finals pitted the Nanaimo Clippers against the Brooks Bandits at the BCHL Showcase.Brooks won the Finals series in five games, while also besting the rematch by a score of 4-1 on Wednesday, Oct. 14 at Silent Ice Centre in Nisku, AB.The Bandits jumped out in front 2-0 in the first ...
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One Goal Short
Clippers drop BCHL Showcase opener to Blackfalds
NISKU, AB - It was a day of playing catch up for the Nanaimo Clippers at the BCHL Showcase. The Blackfalds Bulldogs scored in the first minute off a Matthew Croxall backhand to take one of their three leads in the contest. Caden Okotiva tied the score before the game was three minutes old on a steal and quick shot to t...
Oct 13, 2026
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Canada
The Canadian Press celebrates 75th anniversary of its French services
MONTREAL - The Canadian Press is celebrating the 75th anniversary of its French-language service, which sent out its first dispatches on Sept. 30, 1951. Until then, The Canadian Press, founded in 1917, had been sending English-language dispatches to F...
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CP NewsAlert: Calgary police say 3 deaths, multiple injuries in transit bus fire
CALGARY - Police in Calgary say three people are dead and others are injured in a fire involving a city transit bus. Transit officials say two buses crashed. More coming. The Canadian Press
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B.C. Conservatives dump candidate accused of making Hitler remarks
VICTORIA - The British Columbia Conservatives have dumped a candidate in the provincial election after he was accused of posting online remarks about Hitler and the Holocaust. The party says Vancouver-Strathcona candidate Jordan McIntosh is no longer a...
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CFB Kingston failed environmental compliance inspection on refrigerants: memo
OTTAWA - Environment and Climate Change Canada warned National Defence earlier this year that the CFB Kingston base had broken federal environmental regulations by failing to test air conditioners for refrigerant leaks. After inspecting a building on t...
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Vancouver officer denies giving 'lopsided' account of fatal fight with Myles Gray
VANCOUVER - A Vancouver police officer involved in the deadly arrest of Myles Gray in 2015 says he doesn't agree that he has given a "lopsided" account of the altercation by describing Gray as "the Hulk" or a "charging bull." Const. Eric Birzneck is o...
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AI, resources and water bombers: Draft document maps Canada, EU path to closer ties
MONTREAL - Canada and the European Union are laying out concrete steps to strengthen ties around digital security and defence as well as critical resources and a would-be fleet of Canadian-made water bombers, according to a draft joint statement ahead ...
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World
Police respond to reports of a shooter at an Oregon elementary school
BEND, Ore. (AP) - Police said Thursday they were responding to a report of an active shooter at an elementary school in Bend, Oregon. It was not immediately clear if anyone had been injured. Spokespeople for the city and for the City of B...
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FBI agents and analysts fired for roles in Trump classified files probe sue to get their jobs back
WASHINGTON (AP) - FBI employees fired for their roles in the investigation of President Donald Trump's retention of classified documents at his Florida estate sued on Thursday to get their jobs back, calling their terminations unlawful acts of "politic...
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Ukraine abandons truce and attacks Russian oil refinery as Zelenskyy says he feels betrayed by Trump
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) - Ukraine attacked a Russian oil refinery Thursday, abandoning a brief truce involving energy-related targets that it said Moscow did not heed, as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he felt betrayed by U.S. President Donald...
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Nanaimo Homeowners: Centra's $1M Window Efficiency Plan is now over 75% claimed
The Centra Install Pros Window Efficiency Plan - a program helping Nanaimo homeowners cut the cost of new windows and doors - is running out of runway fast. The plan puts up to $650 toward each window or door replaced, drawn from a dedicated $1 million fund set aside for local homeowners. There is no income testing and...
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